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"ref": "1997 December 8, Peter Hawthorne, “Mugger of the Nation?”, in Time",
"text": "Most of these allegations have already been published; she has denied them all. […] With the welter of claims and counter-claims and evidence that has been contradictory and based on hearsay, it is unlikely that the Truth Commission will come to any significant conclusion.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2022, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, chapter 3, in The Language Game […]",
"text": "They use these words to express a welter of opinions on what they think is good or bad, right or wrong, and all too readily wail ‘It's not fair!’.",
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"word": "hodgepodge"
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"roman": "sumatoha",
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"word": "Woge"
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"word": "Flut"
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"word": "Unzahl"
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"word": "Durcheinander"
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"word": "Wirrwarr"
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"word": "virvar"
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"ref": "1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, lines 11–18",
"text": "And behind, the tempest fleet\nHurries on with lightning feet,\nRiving sail, and cord, and plank,\nTill the ship has almost drank\nDeath from the o’er-brimming deep;\nAnd sinks down, down, like that sleep\nWhen the dreamer seems to be\nWeltering through eternity;",
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"ref": "1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation XVI. The Emperor Alexander and Capo d’Istria”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume 1, London: Taylor and Hessey, page 314",
"text": "You must request their advice how to avert this tremendous evil: you must weep over the decrepid fathers of families, the virtuous wives, the innocent children, the priests at the altar, with God in their mouths, weltering in their blood.",
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"To roll around; to wallow."
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"(intransitive) To roll around; to wallow."
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "valjam se",
"sense": "to roll around; to wallow",
"word": "валям се"
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎrgaljam se",
"sense": "to roll around; to wallow",
"word": "въргалям се"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to roll around; to wallow",
"word": "sich wälzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to roll around; to wallow",
"word": "sich herumwälzen"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to roll around; to wallow",
"word": "sich suhlen"
},
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to roll around; to wallow",
"word": "fetreng"
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"text": "1537, Hugh Latimer, Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in The Sermons of Hugh Latimer, London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38,\nWhen we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards."
},
{
"ref": "1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, “Ivlye” [“July”], lines 197-198, in Ernest de Sélincourt (ed.) Spenser’s Minor Poems, Oxford: Clarendon Press,1910, p. 73",
"roman": "their fasting flockes to keepe.",
"text": "These wisards weltre in welths waues,\npampred in pleasures deepe,\nThey han fatte kernes, and leany knaues,"
}
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"To revel, luxuriate."
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"(intransitive, figurative) To revel, luxuriate."
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"_dis1": "11 88 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to revel, luxuriate",
"word": "schwelgen"
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"ref": "1645, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Moseley, Stanza XII, pp. 6-7",
"text": "Such Musick (as ’tis said)\nBefore was never made,\nBut when of old the sons of morning sung,\nWhile the Creator Great\nHis constellations set,\nAnd the well-ballanc’t world on hinges hung,\nAnd cast the dark foundations deep,\nAnd bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep.",
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"ref": "1793, William Wordsworth, “An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady”, in The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, New York: John W. Lovell, published 1800, page 17",
"text": "There, waves that, hardly weltering, die away,\nTip their smooth ridges with a softer ray;",
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"ref": "1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Descent of the Rhone”, in The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, page 78",
"roman": "Thro’ this blindly-weltering sea",
"text": "Many a fixed unblinking star\nUnto them that wandering are",
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{
"ref": "1883, Henry James, “XX. Niagara”, in Portraits of Places, London: Macmillan, page 369",
"text": "The circle of weltering froth at the base of the Horseshoe, emerging from the dead white vapours—absolute white, as moonless midnight is absolute black—which muffle impenetrably the crash of the river upon the lower bed, melts slowly into the darker shades of green.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Noah”, in The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems, New York: Dutton, page 58",
"text": "All the morn old Noah marvelled greatly\nAt this weltering world that shone so stately,\nDrowning deep the rivers and the plains.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll."
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"(intransitive, of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll."
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"_dis1": "16 1 83",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll",
"word": "wogen"
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"text": "a welter race"
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"text": "1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40,\nBut look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched."
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"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -er",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"ref": "1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, lines 11–18",
"text": "And behind, the tempest fleet\nHurries on with lightning feet,\nRiving sail, and cord, and plank,\nTill the ship has almost drank\nDeath from the o’er-brimming deep;\nAnd sinks down, down, like that sleep\nWhen the dreamer seems to be\nWeltering through eternity;",
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"text": "You must request their advice how to avert this tremendous evil: you must weep over the decrepid fathers of families, the virtuous wives, the innocent children, the priests at the altar, with God in their mouths, weltering in their blood.",
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"text": "1537, Hugh Latimer, Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in The Sermons of Hugh Latimer, London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38,\nWhen we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards."
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"ref": "1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, “Ivlye” [“July”], lines 197-198, in Ernest de Sélincourt (ed.) Spenser’s Minor Poems, Oxford: Clarendon Press,1910, p. 73",
"roman": "their fasting flockes to keepe.",
"text": "These wisards weltre in welths waues,\npampred in pleasures deepe,\nThey han fatte kernes, and leany knaues,"
}
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"ref": "1645, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Moseley, Stanza XII, pp. 6-7",
"text": "Such Musick (as ’tis said)\nBefore was never made,\nBut when of old the sons of morning sung,\nWhile the Creator Great\nHis constellations set,\nAnd the well-ballanc’t world on hinges hung,\nAnd cast the dark foundations deep,\nAnd bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep.",
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"ref": "1793, William Wordsworth, “An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady”, in The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, New York: John W. Lovell, published 1800, page 17",
"text": "There, waves that, hardly weltering, die away,\nTip their smooth ridges with a softer ray;",
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"ref": "1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Descent of the Rhone”, in The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, page 78",
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"text": "Many a fixed unblinking star\nUnto them that wandering are",
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"ref": "1883, Henry James, “XX. Niagara”, in Portraits of Places, London: Macmillan, page 369",
"text": "The circle of weltering froth at the base of the Horseshoe, emerging from the dead white vapours—absolute white, as moonless midnight is absolute black—which muffle impenetrably the crash of the river upon the lower bed, melts slowly into the darker shades of green.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Noah”, in The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems, New York: Dutton, page 58",
"text": "All the morn old Noah marvelled greatly\nAt this weltering world that shone so stately,\nDrowning deep the rivers and the plains.",
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"text": "1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40,\nBut look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched."
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